With today's deals, VMware may have stolen a march on its rival, although XenSource has also inked an OEM deal to embed Symantec's Storage Foundation product line, which includes its Volume Manager software, into its XenEnterprise server virtualization product.
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Jumping on the disaster recovery bandwagon, EMC announced today that VMware's Site Recovery Manager will be integrated into its family of remote replication products, including RecoverPoint, MirrorView, and SRDF.
The storage vendor also announced tighter integration for applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, and SAP running on EMC hardware and software using VMware's virtualization products.
EMC, which spun off much of VMware last year, also revealed that its Avamar product has been optimized for "advanced data-duplication backup" with VMware Consolidated Backup.
Other storage vendors making a song and dance at VMworld Europe this week include Double-Take, which launched a disaster recovery solution for protecting virtual machines and Emulex, which integrated its HBA technology with ESX 3i.
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